September 11, 2025 • 42 mins
The musical landscape of September 2024 unfolds like a treasure map of sonic discoveries as Matt Sidhom and guest co-host Jen Tully navigate through twelve diverse new releases that defy easy categorization.
They kick things off with the track, "Everybody Scream," from Florence and the Machine's upcoming sixth album, which creates a space where women don't have to "be quiet" or "be kind" – a witchy celebration of unrestrained feminine power. Meanwhile, Role Model's infectious "Sally When the Wine Runs Out" has transformed into a cultural moment, with celebrities from Natalie Portman to Al Roker taking turns as the song's namesake during live performances.
The conversation shifts to gritty territory with Idles' "Rabbit Run," where Joe Talbot's distinctive Cockney delivery powers the soundtrack to Austin Butler's new film. This leads into Old Dominion's surprisingly affecting "Miss You Man," a country ballad that captures male friendship and grief with remarkable authenticity.
Wet Leg reveals unexpected vulnerability with "Pokemon," a softer departure from their typically harder-edged sound, while Doja Cat delivers another potential hit with "Jealous Type" .
The musical journey continues through jam band territory with Goose's soulful "Madelena," the country-rap fusion of BigXThaPlug and Shaboozey's "Home," and the truly unexpected "Clockwork" by Laufey, which sounds like a Disney princess number addressing thoroughly modern themes.
The episode closes with universal praise for Dominic Fike's "Sandman," a perfect blend of hip-hop, rap, and old-school R&B influences that showcases why he remains one of music's most exciting voices.
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1. Everybody Scream - Florence and the Machine
2. Sally, When the Wine Runs Out - ROLE MODEL
3. Rabbit Run - Idles
4. Miss You Man - Old Dominion
5. Dealer - Lola Young
6. That's Gonna Leave A Mark - Molly Tuttle
7. pokemon - Wet Leg
8. Madalena - Goose
9. Jealous Tytpe - Doja Cat
10. Home - BigXThaPlug & Shaboozey
11. Clockwork - Laufey
12. Sandman - Dominic Fike
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Welcome back to another Super Awesome Mix.
My name is Matt Siddholm,alongside not my co-host and
co-founder, sam Avusalvi, butrather our other host on the
Super Awesome Mix podcastnetwork, the hostess with the
mostest.
She is the host of what Are youListening To, and my co-host on
the battle Joining me this weekis Jen Tully.
(00:33):
Hi, jen.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Hey there, I'm so happy to be here this week.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Yes, yes, sam's going to be out for a little bit, so
Jen's going to join me on anepisode or two or three.
Um, so, yeah, you get a littlebit more of us.
But of course, you can listento the battle week after week.
We're in the thick of it rightnow yacht rock battle, trying to
decide the ultimate yacht rocksong.
But, jen, I don't think we have.
(00:58):
We're doing new music this year, this this week, and I don't
think we have any yacht rockcandidates on this mix.
Right, we do not no, no, no, no.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Yacht Rock here not to speak of, actually quite the
opposite in a lot of ways.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Some of these tracks are definitely not Yacht Rock.
Not Yacht Rock at all at all.
Well, sam may not be here, butI mean we couldn't let this one
slip off our radar.
So your first pick, it'sEverybody Scream by Florence and
the Machine.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Oh my goodness.
Yes, this is for Sam and I.
I think we are going to be indeep conversation about this one
Once the album drops.
I'm so excited she's got.
Florence and the Machine have anew album.
Their sixth studio album iscoming out on October 31st
Halloween and with the name ofthis song you can imagine that.
(01:53):
You know from the verybeginning of this track.
You know you're in for somewitchy shit, right.
Like that is what I love aboutFlorence, like you're going to
get in there.
It's going to feel like aceremony, it's going to be very
empowering, it's going to feelalmost like a ritual.
Like that's almost how I thinkof her music and especially her
concerts, like her live musicexperience, and I just think
that this song specifically isgoing to be so fun live.
(02:15):
That's something I'm superexcited to like chat about too.
It's like, can you feel?
Like just, I don't know thatyou've ever been to a Florence
and the Machine concert, matt,but you're missing out.
I'll say that first.
They're amazing.
I mean, she works a crowd likenobody's business.
She's running here and there inher, you know, nightgown and
(02:36):
bare feet and like all of thethings that she does.
And I have to say, the lastshow we went to.
I mean, I cried, I laughed, Isang, I danced, like all the
things that she's talking aboutin this song.
I just think it's going to beso fun live.
So that's something that I'msuper excited about.
This track, too, and you know,I think that this is such a you
(02:58):
know, a thinly veiled metaphorfor fame.
That's what the song is aboutto me metaphor for fame.
That's what the song is about tome Like.
She's singing about how it's sotaxing to emotionally give of
yourself the kind of performancethat she gives every night.
But she has this great linelike but how can I slow down or
how can I stop when everybody'sscreaming my name?
You know?
Speaker 1 (03:18):
and I'm like.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Oh, that's gotta be like a drug, right?
I mean, think about being on astage with that many people
screaming for you that paidmoney to be there.
Like, what must that feel?
Like, tell me, matt, what mustthat feel?
Speaker 1 (03:32):
like Well, I'm glad you asked.
That's a perfect transition.
It feels pretty good, I got totell you.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
I know you fill stadiums all the time, so this
is old hat for you.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
We did the live show tour a couple years ago.
I mean seven nights at theMeadowlands.
It was unbelievable.
Yeah, no, I have not seen herlive, but I do think it would be
an amazing live show, justbecause she brings so much
emotion to her studio albums.
Right Like you feel the emotionjust from the studio version,
(04:07):
so I can't even imagine whatshe's bringing to.
The live shows, right, like yougot to figure, when they're a
little bit more low key I mean,we've all seen live bands right,
like in the studio version isone thing, but a lot of times,
you know, you get one of twothings Either the live version
is just carbon copy this is howthey sang it in the studio or
(04:30):
it's just a completely differentexperience, right, and, and
usually um for the better, butyeah, so I'd imagine this is
pretty incredible.
So I, I will look out if she,if she's rolling through dallas
or somewhere nearby, I may, uh,I may have to go check it out.
And this, this one is great.
I think it's so appropriate, itit's coming out on Halloween
because, you're right, just fromthe get go, it's like, yeah,
this, this feels, this feels alittle scary, right, and, and
(04:52):
you're right, I bet fame is is alittle bit scary, even though
so many people now you know whatdo they say Young people, now
everybody wants to be a YouTuberand wants to be like this
famous person, but it's likemaybe it's not.
Maybe it's not as great as youthink it is or as great as it
looks.
There's definitely some perks,I'm sure.
But yeah, I think here she, sheprobably kind of hits both
(05:13):
sides of it.
It's probably pretty incredible, but probably pretty
suffocating as well.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Yeah, I think that that's so true.
And the last thing I'll saybefore we head into track two is
just, I love too she talksabout how, when she's performing
, she can grow, she can be bigshe can be her full self and her
full potential.
Like there's a great line thatsays here I don't have to be
quiet, here I don't have to bekind, extraordinary and normal
all at the same time and you'rejust like whoa, I don't know
(05:41):
like a woman in the world.
Probably that can't relate tothat, I don't know like a woman
in the world.
Probably that can't relate tothat.
We're always being told to bequiet or be less or calm down or
whatever.
So I love that she has thisspace where she can go and just
be as big and as loud as shewants to be and not worry about
it.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
There's a really cool show on Netflix, I mean it's
about the WWE and professionalwrestling, right, and it's
called Unreal and they showthese guys kind of backstage and
sort of who they normally areand and all of them kind of talk
about how, yeah, well, that guyout there, that girl out there,
that's, that's who this personis.
(06:17):
So it's like they've alsotalked about if you've heard
professional wrestlers talk thatit's kind of this little part
of themselves that they justsort of blow up and sort of get
big, if you will, and that'ssort of the ones who kind of get
over, if you will and get bigwith the crowds.
But it was cool to see thatsort of in the professional
wrestling sense.
But I think it hits exactly onwhat you're talking about there.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
It does Well.
And talking about great liveshows and fun people to go see,
let's transition to track two,which is your first pick and a
song that we actually both chosethis week.
But I pivoted because I lovethis song, I'm so excited to
talk about it, and your pick isSally when the Wine Runs Out.
By Role Model.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Yeah, this is such a fun song.
Role Model is just one guy.
It's Tucker HarringtonPillsbury.
He's from a small town in Maine.
I lived in Maine for threeyears.
I can tell you where he lives.
It's a very small town butrelative to most cities
everywhere in Maine is a prettysmall town.
This guy's funny.
He started out as a rapper.
Right Came out and actually hadsome some early like his early
(07:23):
recordings.
He considered himself a rapperand then he kind of shifted a
little bit and he kind of Idon't know, I guess you can call
the bridge of the song a littlebit of a rap, but the rest of
it is pretty far from it.
But yeah, I mean I think it'ssuch a fun song.
You know, lyrically I'll buy acouple of rounds Don't let me
think I'm enough and thendisappear when the wine runs out
(07:46):
.
So he's kind of just he'senjoying hanging out with this
girl but it's like he's justworried she's just kind of there
for the free drinks.
So, um, really really cool songand I I'm excited to kind of
get into more of his work.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Yeah, I love this song too.
Um, and I mean what?
Girls not going to say yes to acouple of free drinks?
I mean, you know, yes, that's.
It's not very nice and I hopethe times have changed, but that
used to sort of be an MO whenwe would go out like hey,
anybody have any money.
No, okay.
Well, let's go where we can getour drinks bought for us.
Sorry, guys, let you behind thepink curtain there.
But that happens, I'm sure ithappens yeah but I think that
(08:30):
this song is so fun.
I like how vulnerable he is init.
I love that it's like asing-along.
I love, love, love that thissummer on tour he's been pulling
sally's I'm air quoting fromthe audience for this song.
So at every tour stop he'llpull a famous person up on stage
to dance during the chorus intothat.
Oh no, here we go again thatpart, and so he's had.
(08:53):
I mean everybody.
Kate Hudson did it, nataliePortman, olivia Rodrigo in San.
Francisco Troye.
Sivan was his Sally when he wason was his sally um when he was
on uh morning tv.
Al roker was his sally, reneerap bowen, yang his mom, like
all of these people, have gottento be sally for him.
I think that's such a fun, likegimmick if you will, but like
(09:15):
works for this song.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
So if you've got google.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Roker is up there, yeah roker was his sally when he
was on Good Morning AmericaToday Show.
I'm not sure which one, I don'tget up that early.
Today Show Maybe.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
I don't know.
Good Morning America.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
One of them, he was on that and Al Roker came up and
did the Sally routine.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Anyway, al Roker's joining the show next week, so
we'll cut that part out on theedit.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Well, yeah, right.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
I'm joking.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Watch the videos.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
If you haven't seen him pulling his Sally's on stage
they're very fun.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Natalie Portman is really fun.
Troye Sivan is really fun, solook for his Sally concert
videos from this summer.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
I like it.
I like it.
All right, track three.
Your next pick, it is RabbitRun by Idles.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
All right, this is a good one.
This is a gritty one.
I like this one.
So, um, this is from a newmovie that just came out called
caught stealing um with thebeautiful austin butler who was
just here in austin texaspromoting this movie and causing
quite a stir.
Um, matthew mcconaughey cameout and they did a big intro, um
for the film and so, like thewhole city was in a you know a
(10:22):
stir, with austin butler andmatthew mcconaughey running
around all night, and was in ayou know a stir, with Austin
Butler and Matthew McConaugheyrunning around all night.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
And it was.
You know, what's interestingabout that pairing is you know
both of them thought I'm waybetter looking than this guy.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Probably, and they probably are right.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
They're both kind of right and both kind of like huh,
but that's a real like goodlooking off right there you know
first.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Oh well, austin butler's like oh, that's what
it's going to be like when I'mdistinguished, right that's me
in 30 years.
Wow, I'm gonna be that cool, huh, okay, okay but yeah, they,
they definitely caused a ruckusin the city and I feel like this
song is like the perfectsoundtrack almost to that.
(11:06):
It's sort of this gritty, youknow it feels very.
Idols who I love.
I love this band.
Joe Talbot, who's the leadsinger I love his cockney accent
.
It just gives it like an extra,like grittiness to me.
There's a part where he'stalking about something pressing
on me.
Well, I'll read the whole lyric.
He has a great lyric that sayscome to me like a boa snake
(11:30):
pressing on me like a toothache,beat you slow like your padre
got you running like a jailbreak.
And I'm like, okay, that'spretty clever.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
I like that.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
But again back to the Cockney part.
He doesn't say toothache, hesays toothache.
And I'm like that's genius, Ilove that, you know, it just
sounds like so British andhardcore to me.
And then, while we're ontoothache, just a fun fact, the
guitarist and idols, mark Bowen,is also a dentist.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
I'm done.
Wow, now that is an amazing funfact.
There you go.
I would not have guessed thatin a million years.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Also a dentist.
Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Wow, I also wonder, when people hear too fake, if
they are like interpreting thesong in a completely different
way because they don't realizeit's an accent, right?
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Yeah, like pressing on you, like you're too fake.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Like you're too fake.
Yes, it's like T-O-O instead oflike a toothache.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
That's right, I'm all go watch You're my Fair Lady
folks, if you're not familiarwith the Cockney accent, and
we'll reconvene.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Yeah, this song was really cool, like just from the
jump I could totally see itbeing in a movie right, like it
had kind of a montage feel to it, not like a cheesy montage, but
actually like something kind ofcool right.
And so when you read the title,like caught stealing, you know,
I kind of immediately in mymind I went to the movie, gone
in 60 seconds, right withnicholas cage, and I could, I
(12:56):
could kind of see this runningthrough that movie as well.
Um, but obviously thecharacter's going through some
tough times right, like you cancan get that for sure from the
lyrics.
But you're right, I just lovethe whole vibe here and they're
kind of I saw the label PostPunk for them as a band which I
think I had not heard before.
(13:16):
It's just kind of post punk.
I don't know if that's justsort of a way to call it modern
punk or if there is somethingdifferent about post punk, but
you definitely get the punk feelfrom it for sure.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Yeah, you do, you definitely do.
Well, moving into your secondpick and our fourth track, we
have a song called Miss you manby Old Dominion.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Yeah, it's a little new country, and I mean Sam
definitely hates just countryand I know you're not a fan of
new country, correct?
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Country music after 1989 does not exist for me.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
I featured Old Dominion on the show before.
I really like the way MatthewRamsey, their lead singer,
sounds right, like I just I lovehis voice, he's got a real
smoothness to it.
You know, this is borderline,kind of like a lot of new
country, it's kind of borderlinepoppy.
So I'm not going to sit hereand be like, hey, man, this is
that classic country sound Right.
(14:10):
But I think what got me on thisone right is just just
lyrically and thematically thisone, because my best friend
passed away a few years ago andthere's a line in here where he
says he heard a joke that onlyyou would get Right and he kind
of had to laugh and like that's.
And I totally related to thatbecause that's happened to me I
don't know how many times overthe last few years and so I
(14:33):
thought it was great that hekind of captured that within a
song.
That it's not this overly atleast in my mind.
It wasn't overly sappy kind ofabout missing someone.
There weren't a lot of tears inthe song.
It's not like that right, it'sjust I think this very guy
centered emotion right, likeit's a very like this is how
guys will think about each otheror or whatever it is, and it's
(14:57):
just this kind of baseline likehey, I miss you, you know that
sort of thing.
So I thought they did a goodjob of that, to kind of
capturing emotions that I thinkguys have a hard time
articulating a lot of times.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Yeah, I completely agree, and it's funny I was
teasing a little bit before westarted recording that I
wondered how much new country Iwas going to have to slog
through on this new, this newSeptember new music mix.
But I have to say this one Iwill.
The only thing I will disagreeabout is that I felt like it was
a tearjerker.
I found myself weeping to thissong.
(15:32):
It made me cry and it mightstill, as we're talking about it
, because I think that it.
I think it speaks to, certainlyin the song.
This man lost a very closefriend of his and he's singing
about it, but it sounds likethis person died.
But I think it also speaks tolike when friendships just sort
of run their course you know,and for whatever reason,
(15:54):
somebody's not there, eitherliterally or figuratively, like
they've, they've, they're gonefrom your life and sort of that
hole that it leaves and justthat instant instinct that you
have to connect with them onthings.
Like you said, for you the lineabout the joke stood out and
for me the line that stood outwas um, yeah, I miss you, man,
when I hear the band in the baron fifth and main.
(16:14):
Yeah, we tore it up, but Idon't go there much anymore.
It just ain't the same and Ithat, like that really related
to me, like places like whereyou've gone with somebody that's
such a close friend and, justlike you, just it's almost like
that place is dead to you toowhen that person's not there,
because it's just too painful togo back and remember all the
good times.
And I always hope, like, maybeit won't always be like that,
(16:37):
like maybe there'll be a timewhen I'll find comfort in those
old things that we used to do.
But right now it's too soon,it's too fresh.
But I thought that this was,like you said, just a
beautifully written song.
And it was it felt very muchlike two guys, just like ugh.
Even every time he says missyou, man, you feel it, he really
misses this person.
(16:57):
So I felt like it definitelyconnotated the emotion it was
supposed to and it hit me.
It hit me right in the heart,even though Nice, it was old or
it was new country.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
It's new country.
It's new country, all right.
Well, let's move on tosomething that's definitely not
new country.
Your next pick, this is dealer,by Lola Young.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
So Lola Young is having a moment right now, right
Like she's almost like I likenher to like.
She's like the musical versionof the character that Megan
Stalter plays in too much.
I don't know if anybody outthere has watched Too Much, but
that's what this is to me.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
I don't know that reference at all.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Oh my gosh, so Too Much.
Is the new show by Lena Dunhamright?
The girl that created?
Girls Okay, yes, yes, yes, yes,okay, she has a new show that's
kind of like autobiographicalloosely, and Megan Stalter has
just blown up playing thischaracter.
She's great in it, and so LolaYoung is like the musical
embodiment of that.
My girls out there are going tounderstand.
(17:57):
But she had a song called Messy.
That was from her album in 2024called this Wasn't Meant For
you.
Anyway, I think she might havebeen talking to you, matt.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Hey, I fully admit when I'm not the demo, I say
that all the time I I fullyadmit there's a lot of songs out
there, not for me, but I canappreciate it well, and then
this song is coming.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
This is a single um.
It came out in july and it'llappear on her new album, which
is coming on the 19th of thismonth, called I'm only fucking
myself sorry for the languagetoday, but that's the name of
the album um.
And then she has another songcalled one thing.
Not like that anymore.
Those are the other two singlesthat have been released so far,
but I just think that she'sgreat and I think that this song
(18:39):
is so.
It's one of those where we talkabout kind of sad lyrics with
upbeat music yeah like, how sadwould it be if, like you're so
frustrated, you've got to getout of town.
Everything is so crappy and youthink the only people that's
going to miss you or care aboutyou or even notice that you're
gone is your weed guy, is yourdrug dealer, and I love too that
(19:01):
when she's leaving, that's whatshe's packing.
She's going to pack up herself.
She's going to pack up herdrugs and she's going to get out
of town.
I'm like, well, you, you got totake the important stuff.
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Well, not only that's the person who's going to
notice, but also tell my dealerI'll miss him, right, she has
that lie to there where it'slike, yeah, make sure he knows I
miss him too, right, like Iknow he's missing me.
Um, I also thought it was funny.
There was an, there was a linein here.
I was like I'm not coming backfor 15 years and I was like what
is it about 15 years?
I didn't know if there was somesort of backstory or if it was
(19:33):
just kind of an arbitrary.
Almost sounds like, you know,like when kids could try to
think of like a long time, right.
And it's just like they throwout a number and it's like I
don't come back for three monthsand they think that's like a
thousand years, Right.
So I didn't know if it kind ofrepresented that a little bit.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
I think you're a hundred percent right.
That's what I was going to say.
I think she's young and I thinkwhen you're young, you think
like 15 years is a really longtime.
I'm like gee, 15 years went byin a heartbeat, Like I'm still
37 in my head Like what are wetalking about here?
Like so I think it's just she'sa young person and so that felt
like a long time to her.
(20:12):
But yeah, I just think it's agreat.
I think it's a great, I likeher a lot.
I like her vibe, I think herlyrics are funny and playful and
real and that's I really love.
I love this song.
I'm excited for the new album.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
Agreed, agreed, agreed.
I'm going to listen, eventhough, as you said, it's
probably not for me.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Probably not for you, but it's good.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
And that's okay, and that's okay.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Well, we're going to get to the halfway point here
with your next track, and thatis a song called that's Going to
Leave a Mark by Molly.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Tuttle.
Yeah, Molly Tuttle, this iskind of a pop country sort of
sound to it.
I don't know if it's newcountry.
She's from Santa Clara, so it'snot like she's she's based out
of Nashville now, but but shedoes have Northern California
roots.
This, thematically, is just areal straight ahead kind of kind
of a love song.
Like you've heard this athousand times in songs, but
(21:05):
it's like kind of in love withsomeone she shouldn't, she
probably shouldn't love, right,and she can't help herself and
that's why you get back to thischorus of that's going to leave
a mark.
So I thought it was really likekind of cleverly written.
I like her voice.
You know her new album has kindof a bluegrass kind of feel to
it a little bit.
(21:26):
She's kind of got that in herbag like that sort of
bluegrassness.
Again, I'm not sure where thatcomes from, coming out of Santa
Clara, but she's, I think, inNashville now, so maybe it's
just kind of something that'sgrown on her.
But yeah, just kind of a prettygood artist and I just like the
fact that.
You know, I don't know, Jen,while you've given up on country
(21:46):
after 1989, I still try to lookfor the good, you know try to
try to bring some stuff out here.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
I love that about you .
I love that you're still tryingso hard and you know what?
Like, don't get me wrong theart, the new artists that are
coming out that sound like oldcountry.
I'm here, for I love SturgillSimpson, I love Chris Stapleton,
I love Chaparral.
There are some people that arehaving a moment that I can get
behind and I thought that thissong was interesting.
(22:17):
I almost wouldn't evencategorize it as country music,
right, it did feel, it feltreally 90s to me.
It reminded me of that.
Do you remember that old DonnaLewis song that?
Speaker 1 (22:28):
I love, I love you always forever.
Yeah, yeah, just came on the90s channel yesterday when I was
driving around.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Yeah, I feel like this song gave me vibes of like
that.
Yeah, like it's not super deep,but it's really listenable,
it's relatable and she's a greatguitar player.
You can't like, there's no twoways about that.
And, and I think like just tocircle back to the bluegrass
question too, she's really goodfriends with Billy strings.
And so I think that yeah, assoon as I learned that they were
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friends, her music made alittle bit more sense to me.
I was like, oh, now I kind ofget what she's going for.
But but I I did.
I liked the song, the same waythat I loved a lot of that sort
of like pop that came out in the90s.
That was just really easy tolisten to not easy listening,
but like easy yeah, yeah, listento for sure, for sure.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Uh, all, right again, sam's not here, but his spirit
never leaves us.
So of course, track sevenpokemon by wet leg another fave,
another fave.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
well, and I love too that we have like your, very
like, clean, lovely, family,friendly artists like packed in
between my like raunchy, I'm all.
Who's the mom here, not meApparently, wow.
But I love Wet Leg.
Their first album was onconstant repeat for me, like
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could not get enough.
They dropped the second albumin July actually.
So it's this is not super,super new, but this song is on
the new album that dropped onJuly 11.
But this was not one of thesingles that was released.
So if you've not dug into thatalbum, you probably haven't
heard this song, which is why Iincluded it.
And if you're a fan of wet leg,this is kind of the softer side
(24:09):
of Wet Leg.
They're known for their likehard rocking.
You know anthems, like cleverlyrics.
You know whether it's ChaseLong which launched them, or a
great song that I love calledWet Dream, or a song Catch these
Fists was the lead single thatcame out to launch or announce
this album.
All great songs, CPR also great,but this one is soft, Like this
(24:32):
was kind of the first time Iheard them like delve into love
song territory in this way and Ijust thought it was so great.
I'm hopeful that they don'tlose their edge because, like I
said, I love those hard rockinghits from wet leg.
I think that they're again soclever and so great and I love
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that.
These two women really likebuck the system.
They just do whatever they wantand people are here for it
because they're like they.
It's been a minute since theyreleased that first album you
know, for maybe five or sixyears.
And so everybody's just beenlike clamoring to get new music
from them.
Um, and so I've.
I've been really pleased withthisizer album.
If you've not listened to it, Ihighly highly recommend yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
Now, if you're a Pokemon fan, I'm just going to
warn you this does not have aton of Pokemon references in it
right.
Yeah, and I'm only a Pokemon.
My son is into it, so that'show I even know anything about
Pokemon.
But as I was listening to thisI was like this doesn't have as
much to do with pokemon as thetitle might indicate.
But you're right, I think it iskind of a softer feel to it and
I thought it was um interestingand this always kind of works
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out this way on these new musicmixes how it's placed right next
to the molly tuttle song,because we know, while that's a
relationship that is probablygoing to go poorly, again, this
one sounds more promising.
This relationship, right butinteresting, coming from these
two artists where you wouldthink molly tuttle sound
probably indicates again thisone sounds more promising.
This relationship, right butinteresting, coming from these
two artists where you wouldthink Molly Tuttle's sound
probably indicates somethingmore promising where Wet Leg,
maybe it might go a littlerougher.
(25:57):
So interesting kind ofjuxtaposition of these two
artists and both of them doingsomething.
Maybe that is a little bit of adeparture, but yeah, I like
this one, me too.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
I like the band, I like the new album.
All right track eight.
Here we are with a song youchose, matt, called madelena by
goose yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
So goose is uh kind of a jam band.
They have performed with deadand company and uh with trey
anastasio from fish, um, andwhat's what I found really
interesting about them.
So I just kind of just I, Ijust came across them for the
first time.
I'm sure they're.
They have some massive fans outthere.
But what's interesting is thaton their studio album they have
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tracks that go on for like 12 or13 minutes, which a lot of
times for the jam band.
It's like the track the studiotrack is your standard three or
four minute track and then it'sthe live version.
That's like the track.
The studio track is yourstandard three or four minute
track and then it's the liveversion.
That's like we're going 27minutes on this one, right I
cannot do it with the jam bands,yeah now, I'm normally not a
jam band guy, right like, but Ithought this was interesting
(27:02):
because it was kind of adeparture right like.
This was a really soulfulsounding song.
Um, I'm glad you're on the showthis week because this one kind
of reminded me of John Mayer alittle bit.
Of course, john Mayer is nowleading all things Dead and
Company, so maybe that isn't asodd as maybe I thought.
But I don't know.
(27:22):
I just thought this one as astandalone song, take the jam
band aspect out of it.
I'm like this is a really kindof cool song, you know.
And then when I'm listening toother tracks on this album and
I'm looking down and I'm goingthere's nine minutes left.
I'm like, well, okay, maybe I'mnot going to a live show, but I
do love this song.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
You need to practice your spinning Matt, so you're
ready to get up there in frontToo old.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
yeah, yeah, You're ready to get up there in front
Too old.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Yeah yeah.
I thought that this was aninteresting song and again, like
we're going back, I referenced,you know, Donna Lewis earlier.
This one gave me really 90svibes again and it's interesting
that I would not have guessedthat they were a jam band.
I was not familiar with thisband.
I think I've heard they have asong called Hot Tea that I've
heard it's from an older album,I think from 2022.
(28:16):
And that was really the onlyother song of theirs that I knew
.
And so this one going in again,I got 90s vibes, like it could
be.
Here I am busting out anotherrandom hit from the 90s, but it
reminded me of that Edwin McCainsong.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
I'll Be, I'll Be.
Oh yeah, yeah Sounded a littlebit like that.
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
Like it could have been like a Matchbox 20 song.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
So I was getting a lot of those vibes too, and I
didn't realize that they'd beenaround this long.
They've been around since 2014.
So, I was expecting them to bea much newer band than that.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
But they were new to me yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
All right track.
Nine this is Jealous Type byDoja Cat.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
Yay, Doja Cat's back Again.
Another super mom moment.
I was like, yeah, I'm blastingDoja Cat in the house, that's
good for all teenage girls tohear.
But I just like this song willbe on her new album, Vi, which
releases on September 25th.
And apparently it's not quitedone yet, because she was
(29:13):
supposed to headline ACL Festand it came out just late last
week or early this week thatshe's not going to be there
anymore because she needs tofinish this album.
So I think that almost soundslike she's in trouble.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
You know I'm like well, you're not going to ACL if
you don't finish this album.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
That's right, like you're going to stay in'm.
Like, well, you're not going toacl if you don't finish this
album.
That's right, like you're gonnastay in this studio.
You're not going anywhere.
Ma'am, I'm taking the keys, I'mtaking the phone that's right,
that's right you are in hereuntil vi is finished.
So, yeah, she's uh, she'sworking on it currently, but I
just think that this song is fun.
It's fun, it's cleaner thanmost doja cat songs.
So if, if you want to listen inthe car, you're not in trouble.
(29:53):
But she's just again anotherone.
That's clever.
I like her sound.
I like the way she sings.
I like it when she raps.
Some of her Kiss Me More, Ithink, is a great song.
Paint the Town Red is a greatsong and I feel like Jealous
Type is kind of up in that, likeupper echelon of her hits for
me.
So I'm really excited for therest of this album.
(30:13):
I think that this is a reallygood, a really good Doja Cat
song.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Yeah, this gave me a lot of 80s vibes right.
Totally.
Yeah, like the music, just theenergy, I really enjoyed it.
And the rapping I mean comes inand it's probably like you you
said it's a little cleaner, it'sa tad less aggressive than
maybe you'd normally hear.
So I just think this is like awell-produced song right, like
they did a great job.
(30:39):
Like this is a hit record right.
Like if I could be kind of oldschool music producer guy, it's
like I totally see how this is ahit record right here.
Um, just because of the wayit's put together and so, yeah,
I just really good job, used itearlier.
Like you know, it's not easylistening but it's easy to
listen to and I think this is inthat category.
(31:00):
So, yeah, really, really coolstuff.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
Agreed, and it's also too.
I don't know if this is a guything or not.
It's probably a differentplaylist than a girl, but it's a
fun getting ready song likethat used to be really important
, like when you're getting readyto go out like you had to have
the perfect playlist to like getit together so you could go
score all those free drinks,matt no, 100, I get.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
I get where that's coming from.
You know, talk about like, notin the demo.
It takes me less than 10minutes to get myself ready, so
I don't.
I don't need a playlist forthat, it's really, you just need
one goose song I put on a livealbum from goose or the dead and
I'm out less than one track youdon't even make it through the
(31:46):
first song that's right, that'sright well, we are.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
we are coming to the end of our playlist here, so we
will finish.
We will at least finish thattoday, um, but we are here at
track 10, uh, which is a songcalled home by big X, the plug
and shibuzy.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
Yes, so I think I've brought tracks from both shibuzy
and big X plug on the showbefore.
Uh, big x the plug is a newalbum out, um, and he gets a lot
of help from a lot of differentartists.
I think jelly roll is on here,and and shibuzi, and you know
big s the plug is from dallas.
He just got arrested hererecently, um, and so he is.
(32:25):
He is local guy right local guygetting arrested local guy.
A local man was arrested lastnight.
Um, and his name goes by big x,the plug, um, but yeah.
So this this album, though, hasa much more country sound to it
than I think his other albums.
Um, what I think is reallyfunny is all his tracks are like
(32:46):
two and a half minutes, like hegets in and and gets out right,
like it's real quick.
I don't know what he does inthe live version, if he does
extend it out to 13 minutes ornot, but maybe the complete
opposite of a jam band.
But I think this one stood outfor me just because he's kind of
rapping about either missing aperson or a place right, like
(33:09):
kind of someplace where he'shappiest.
So it's a little more emotionalthan I think you get from a lot
of his other stuff.
And then Shabuzy only adds tothat.
So I don't know.
I thought it was a cool song,and his new album, I think, is
pretty neat too and maybe speaksto more of his Texas roots.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
Yeah, I mean.
One good thing that I'll sayabout this song is that if I
ever need to hear Shaboosie,this gives me a different option
than listening to Tipsy, a barsong, for the 999,000th time.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
All right, I'll take it.
I'll take it, that's good Okay.
Speaker 2 (33:43):
This is a question I have for you and I'm being dead
serious even though it soundslike I'm not.
I'm not sure I understand whowas missing having rap in their
country music.
Who was missing?
That who was like?
No, I mean, I definitely needto throw 17 bars of rap into
(34:03):
this country.
Song.
Speaker 1 (34:05):
I don't look, I'm not advocating for, like country
artists and rappers to gettogether Like this is a big X
the plug album and I feel likeShabuzy is just sort of singing
over.
I hear this as like Shabuzy isjust kind of singing over a rap
track on this Right Like, andjust kind of adding to it the
way a lot of rappers have used,you know, vocalists in the past.
(34:28):
So I kind of see it as that.
But to answer your question, Imean nobody, that's all I needed
.
I'm just kidding.
I don't care for it.
No, I really don't.
I really am quick to turn thatpretty quickly when that happens
, but anyway, it's happeningmore and more.
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
It is, and you know what?
There's clearly an audience forit, right?
Speaker 1 (34:49):
Again, know it is and you know what.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
There's clearly an audience for it.
Right again, talk about notbeing the demo like I am not the
demo right, um, but I thoughtthat just in like terms of again
like a getting ready song orsomething fun to hear like this
song is that it's fun to listento.
Um, it's got a great like it'supbeat, it feels like like
you're getting ready to, youknow, celebrate or have fun, you
know something like that.
So I feel like it's still asong that I enjoyed listening to
(35:11):
.
I just I had lots of questionsas it was going.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
I'm like, who is this for?
Speaker 2 (35:15):
I just want to know who this is for.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
That's fair.
This is not you know what.
In contrast to Jealous Type,this is not a hit record.
Right Like 10 is not going tobe a radio hit or anything like
that.
Or Home is not going to be aradio hit, where I think Jealous
Type really is kind of formedfor that.
But your last pick, this nextpick I mean you talk about a
curveball which I just lovedyour last pick, this is
(35:41):
Clockwork by LaFay.
Speaker 2 (35:44):
Yes, I love this artist and there is like a ton
of internet controversy abouthow you actually pronounce her
name.
I guess the way that it'spronounced in Icelandic those
sounds don't exist in English.
So yeah, yeah, so we're tryingwith like the closest I've heard
is the way you said it Lefe.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
How does the sound not?
Speaker 2 (36:04):
exist.
I know, I don't know, maybethey make like dolphin noises, I
don't know, like clicking, okay, I don't know.
Maybe they make like dolphin ornoises, I don't know, like
clicking, like, okay, I don'tknow, but those sounds don't
exist in english, is what I read, okay, um, so this song is,
you're right, it's a totaldeparture.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
It's like part christmas carol part.
Speaker 2 (36:23):
Princess song from a disney movie yeah um, it's got
it all in there, but you knowwhat it immediately reminded me
of?
Which is so funny, is itreminded me of it's oh so Quiet
by Bjork, the other Icelandicsuperstar.
So I'm like they must lovetheir old musicals or standards.
Speaker 1 (36:45):
Or they're like 100 years behind on music and that's
like new music to them.
Speaker 2 (36:50):
Well, the funny thing is, if you go through the rest
of this album so this is fromthe A Matter of Time album,
which was released on August22nd, and the first two tracks
kind of stay in this lane alittle bit and then it's not.
I mean, she's definitely like achantreuse, she's a singer,
she's a torch singer almost.
(37:10):
So you do get some of it, butnot in like the show-tuney
Disney princess kind of way thatyou do in this track and then a
little bit in the second andthen, even though I think it's
the third track, is actuallycalled Snow White.
It delves into more of like hernormal sound, but I just
thought this was so cool.
It was really unexpected.
I liked it and I think justthis album in general kind of
(37:33):
starts stronger than it finishesto me, and this is the first
track on it.
So I say, give it.
If you're looking for a hardleft, you're looking for
something that's kind ofdifferent and kind of crazy.
I like this one and I like thestory.
You know, I think it's kind offunny that she's singing about
something very real and modernin this very like throwback
style.
That was something thatintrigued me about this song as
(37:55):
well.
Speaker 1 (37:56):
Yeah, that's what stood out to me.
I mean, obviously it sounds acertain way, that's what kind of
gets you right off the bat, butthen lyrically it's, it could
be a very modern song, right,and you could see it framed in a
completely different waysonically and still have it work
.
So I think what made it sointeresting you're right is the
theme, coupled with the way shesings it and the way it's set up
(38:19):
musically and I don't know.
I just thought this was reallycool and she being Icelandic and
Chinese, which has got to be apretty small percentage I mean,
it's 50% of our audience but gotto be rare from a musical
standpoint.
Speaker 2 (38:35):
The studies show that we are huge among the Icelandic
Chinese demographic.
Speaker 1 (38:41):
I don't know what it is, but this sound definitely
exists in their language, okay.
Speaker 2 (38:49):
Oh boy.
Well, to round us out today,before we get ourselves into
trouble, um is your final pick.
Speaker 1 (38:56):
Um, and and one of, maybe, maybe my favorite pick of
yours this week, matt um, asong called sandman by dominic
bike yeah, you know, every,every month we do these new
music mixes and I always know,like there's songs that I'm like
, all right, I'm not gonna misson this one, right and then.
So I could usually get sam onone and and I knew I with this
(39:17):
one, I was like the very least,I think she's gonna like this
song I love dominic uh, yeah,dominic, we've put him on the
show before.
He's.
He's great.
He's got a new album coming, ornew album that did come out,
called rocket.
Um, it's such.
I mean, this is such a greatsong.
It's a great combination of hiphop and rap and even a little
bit of like old school R&B.
And just calling out somelyrics I barely catch a wink.
(39:39):
I guess I'm not the Sandman'stype.
My only wish to be on your list.
So you know, obviously dealingwith some sleep issues here, and
he's just thinking aboutsomeone and he wants to be on
that, you know.
You know, throw back the hollownotes, right, like he wants to
be on their list, right, um, andso I don't know.
Speaker 2 (39:57):
Yacht rock matt?
Speaker 1 (39:58):
no, yacht rock hollow notes is like yacht rock
adjacent right, it is yeah,adjacent, not exactly yacht rock
, so, uh, but no, I don't knowthis.
I I love this song.
There was probably five othersongs I could have picked off
this album to put on this mix,so I just picked this one.
But everyone just go out andlisten to the new album because
it's great, like a lot of hisstuff, so I think everyone's
(40:22):
going to enjoy this one Carrottrack I'm in.
Speaker 2 (40:28):
I love Dominic Fike.
His lyrics are always so catchyand clever and this song is no
different.
It's perfect in that way.
If you like Dominic Fike,you're going to like this song
and, like I said, it got meexcited to go listen to the rest
of the album, all right?
Speaker 1 (40:43):
Well, there you have it A new music mix, this time
for the month of September.
Jen, thank you so much forjoining me this month and
helping me out with the newmusic mix.
Jen's going to be back nextmonth with another new music mix
.
In the meantime, you can joinJen and I on the battle, of
course, as we continue to try tofind the ultimate yacht rock
(41:05):
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Actually, we have a new episodecoming out this week, so she's
(41:26):
got season seven just kickingoff, which is very exciting.
So Jen and I will work on ournext new music mix for next
month, but in the meantime, forJen, this is Matt.
We'll see you then.
Welcome back to another Super Awesome Mix.
My name is Matt Siddholm,alongside not my co-host and
co-founder, sam Avusalvi, butrather our other host on the
Super Awesome Mix podcastnetwork, the hostess with the
mostest.
She is the host of what Are youListening To, and my co-host on
the battle Joining me this weekis Jen Tully.
(00:33):
Hi, jen.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Hey there, I'm so happy to be here this week.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Yes, yes, sam's going to be out for a little bit, so
Jen's going to join me on anepisode or two or three.
Um, so, yeah, you get a littlebit more of us.
But of course, you can listento the battle week after week.
We're in the thick of it rightnow yacht rock battle, trying to
decide the ultimate yacht rocksong.
But, jen, I don't think we have.
(00:58):
We're doing new music this year, this this week, and I don't
think we have any yacht rockcandidates on this mix.
Right, we do not no, no, no, no.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Yacht Rock here not to speak of, actually quite the
opposite in a lot of ways.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Some of these tracks are definitely not Yacht Rock.
Not Yacht Rock at all at all.
Well, sam may not be here, butI mean we couldn't let this one
slip off our radar.
So your first pick, it'sEverybody Scream by Florence and
the Machine.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Oh my goodness.
Yes, this is for Sam and I.
I think we are going to be indeep conversation about this one
Once the album drops.
I'm so excited she's got.
Florence and the Machine have anew album.
Their sixth studio album iscoming out on October 31st
Halloween and with the name ofthis song you can imagine that.
(01:53):
You know from the verybeginning of this track.
You know you're in for somewitchy shit, right.
Like that is what I love aboutFlorence, like you're going to
get in there.
It's going to feel like aceremony, it's going to be very
empowering, it's going to feelalmost like a ritual.
Like that's almost how I thinkof her music and especially her
concerts, like her live musicexperience, and I just think
that this song specifically isgoing to be so fun live.
(02:15):
That's something I'm superexcited to like chat about too.
It's like, can you feel?
Like just, I don't know thatyou've ever been to a Florence
and the Machine concert, matt,but you're missing out.
I'll say that first.
They're amazing.
I mean, she works a crowd likenobody's business.
She's running here and there inher, you know, nightgown and
(02:36):
bare feet and like all of thethings that she does.
And I have to say, the lastshow we went to.
I mean, I cried, I laughed, Isang, I danced, like all the
things that she's talking aboutin this song.
I just think it's going to beso fun live.
So that's something that I'msuper excited about.
This track, too, and you know,I think that this is such a you
(02:58):
know, a thinly veiled metaphorfor fame.
That's what the song is aboutto me metaphor for fame.
That's what the song is about tome Like.
She's singing about how it's sotaxing to emotionally give of
yourself the kind of performancethat she gives every night.
But she has this great linelike but how can I slow down or
how can I stop when everybody'sscreaming my name?
You know?
Speaker 1 (03:18):
and I'm like.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Oh, that's gotta be like a drug, right?
I mean, think about being on astage with that many people
screaming for you that paidmoney to be there.
Like, what must that feel?
Like, tell me, matt, what mustthat feel?
Speaker 1 (03:32):
like Well, I'm glad you asked.
That's a perfect transition.
It feels pretty good, I got totell you.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
I know you fill stadiums all the time, so this
is old hat for you.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
We did the live show tour a couple years ago.
I mean seven nights at theMeadowlands.
It was unbelievable.
Yeah, no, I have not seen herlive, but I do think it would be
an amazing live show, justbecause she brings so much
emotion to her studio albums.
Right Like you feel the emotionjust from the studio version,
(04:07):
so I can't even imagine whatshe's bringing to.
The live shows, right, like yougot to figure, when they're a
little bit more low key I mean,we've all seen live bands right,
like in the studio version isone thing, but a lot of times,
you know, you get one of twothings Either the live version
is just carbon copy this is howthey sang it in the studio or
(04:30):
it's just a completely differentexperience, right, and, and
usually um for the better, butyeah, so I'd imagine this is
pretty incredible.
So I, I will look out if she,if she's rolling through dallas
or somewhere nearby, I may, uh,I may have to go check it out.
And this, this one is great.
I think it's so appropriate, itit's coming out on Halloween
because, you're right, just fromthe get go, it's like, yeah,
this, this feels, this feels alittle scary, right, and, and
(04:52):
you're right, I bet fame is is alittle bit scary, even though
so many people now you know whatdo they say Young people, now
everybody wants to be a YouTuberand wants to be like this
famous person, but it's likemaybe it's not.
Maybe it's not as great as youthink it is or as great as it
looks.
There's definitely some perks,I'm sure.
But yeah, I think here she, sheprobably kind of hits both
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sides of it.
It's probably pretty incredible, but probably pretty
suffocating as well.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Yeah, I think that that's so true.
And the last thing I'll saybefore we head into track two is
just, I love too she talksabout how, when she's performing
, she can grow, she can be bigshe can be her full self and her
full potential.
Like there's a great line thatsays here I don't have to be
quiet, here I don't have to bekind, extraordinary and normal
all at the same time and you'rejust like whoa, I don't know
(05:41):
like a woman in the world.
Probably that can't relate tothat, I don't know like a woman
in the world.
Probably that can't relate tothat.
We're always being told to bequiet or be less or calm down or
whatever.
So I love that she has thisspace where she can go and just
be as big and as loud as shewants to be and not worry about
it.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
There's a really cool show on Netflix, I mean it's
about the WWE and professionalwrestling, right, and it's
called Unreal and they showthese guys kind of backstage and
sort of who they normally areand and all of them kind of talk
about how, yeah, well, that guyout there, that girl out there,
that's, that's who this personis.
(06:17):
So it's like they've alsotalked about if you've heard
professional wrestlers talk thatit's kind of this little part
of themselves that they justsort of blow up and sort of get
big, if you will, and that'ssort of the ones who kind of get
over, if you will and get bigwith the crowds.
But it was cool to see thatsort of in the professional
wrestling sense.
But I think it hits exactly onwhat you're talking about there.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
It does Well.
And talking about great liveshows and fun people to go see,
let's transition to track two,which is your first pick and a
song that we actually both chosethis week.
But I pivoted because I lovethis song, I'm so excited to
talk about it, and your pick isSally when the Wine Runs Out.
By Role Model.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Yeah, this is such a fun song.
Role Model is just one guy.
It's Tucker HarringtonPillsbury.
He's from a small town in Maine.
I lived in Maine for threeyears.
I can tell you where he lives.
It's a very small town butrelative to most cities
everywhere in Maine is a prettysmall town.
This guy's funny.
He started out as a rapper.
Right Came out and actually hadsome some early like his early
(07:23):
recordings.
He considered himself a rapperand then he kind of shifted a
little bit and he kind of Idon't know, I guess you can call
the bridge of the song a littlebit of a rap, but the rest of
it is pretty far from it.
But yeah, I mean I think it'ssuch a fun song.
You know, lyrically I'll buy acouple of rounds Don't let me
think I'm enough and thendisappear when the wine runs out
(07:46):
.
So he's kind of just he'senjoying hanging out with this
girl but it's like he's justworried she's just kind of there
for the free drinks.
So, um, really really cool songand I I'm excited to kind of
get into more of his work.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Yeah, I love this song too.
Um, and I mean what?
Girls not going to say yes to acouple of free drinks?
I mean, you know, yes, that's.
It's not very nice and I hopethe times have changed, but that
used to sort of be an MO whenwe would go out like hey,
anybody have any money.
No, okay.
Well, let's go where we can getour drinks bought for us.
Sorry, guys, let you behind thepink curtain there.
But that happens, I'm sure ithappens yeah but I think that
(08:30):
this song is so fun.
I like how vulnerable he is init.
I love that it's like asing-along.
I love, love, love that thissummer on tour he's been pulling
sally's I'm air quoting fromthe audience for this song.
So at every tour stop he'llpull a famous person up on stage
to dance during the chorus intothat.
Oh no, here we go again thatpart, and so he's had.
(08:53):
I mean everybody.
Kate Hudson did it, nataliePortman, olivia Rodrigo in San.
Francisco Troye.
Sivan was his Sally when he wason was his sally um when he was
on uh morning tv.
Al roker was his sally, reneerap bowen, yang his mom, like
all of these people, have gottento be sally for him.
I think that's such a fun, likegimmick if you will, but like
(09:15):
works for this song.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
So if you've got google.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Roker is up there, yeah roker was his sally when he
was on Good Morning AmericaToday Show.
I'm not sure which one, I don'tget up that early.
Today Show Maybe.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
I don't know.
Good Morning America.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
One of them, he was on that and Al Roker came up and
did the Sally routine.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Anyway, al Roker's joining the show next week, so
we'll cut that part out on theedit.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Well, yeah, right.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
I'm joking.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Watch the videos.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
If you haven't seen him pulling his Sally's on stage
they're very fun.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Natalie Portman is really fun.
Troye Sivan is really fun, solook for his Sally concert
videos from this summer.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
I like it.
I like it.
All right, track three.
Your next pick, it is RabbitRun by Idles.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
All right, this is a good one.
This is a gritty one.
I like this one.
So, um, this is from a newmovie that just came out called
caught stealing um with thebeautiful austin butler who was
just here in austin texaspromoting this movie and causing
quite a stir.
Um, matthew mcconaughey cameout and they did a big intro, um
for the film and so, like thewhole city was in a you know a
(10:22):
stir, with austin butler andmatthew mcconaughey running
around all night, and was in ayou know a stir, with Austin
Butler and Matthew McConaugheyrunning around all night.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
And it was.
You know, what's interestingabout that pairing is you know
both of them thought I'm waybetter looking than this guy.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Probably, and they probably are right.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
They're both kind of right and both kind of like huh,
but that's a real like goodlooking off right there you know
first.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Oh well, austin butler's like oh, that's what
it's going to be like when I'mdistinguished, right that's me
in 30 years.
Wow, I'm gonna be that cool, huh, okay, okay but yeah, they,
they definitely caused a ruckusin the city and I feel like this
song is like the perfectsoundtrack almost to that.
(11:06):
It's sort of this gritty, youknow it feels very.
Idols who I love.
I love this band.
Joe Talbot, who's the leadsinger I love his cockney accent
.
It just gives it like an extra,like grittiness to me.
There's a part where he'stalking about something pressing
on me.
Well, I'll read the whole lyric.
He has a great lyric that sayscome to me like a boa snake
(11:30):
pressing on me like a toothache,beat you slow like your padre
got you running like a jailbreak.
And I'm like, okay, that'spretty clever.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
I like that.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
But again back to the Cockney part.
He doesn't say toothache, hesays toothache.
And I'm like that's genius, Ilove that, you know, it just
sounds like so British andhardcore to me.
And then, while we're ontoothache, just a fun fact, the
guitarist and idols, mark Bowen,is also a dentist.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
I'm done.
Wow, now that is an amazing funfact.
There you go.
I would not have guessed thatin a million years.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Also a dentist.
Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Wow, I also wonder, when people hear too fake, if
they are like interpreting thesong in a completely different
way because they don't realizeit's an accent, right?
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Yeah, like pressing on you, like you're too fake.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Like you're too fake.
Yes, it's like T-O-O instead oflike a toothache.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
That's right, I'm all go watch You're my Fair Lady
folks, if you're not familiarwith the Cockney accent, and
we'll reconvene.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Yeah, this song was really cool, like just from the
jump I could totally see itbeing in a movie right, like it
had kind of a montage feel to it, not like a cheesy montage, but
actually like something kind ofcool right.
And so when you read the title,like caught stealing, you know,
I kind of immediately in mymind I went to the movie, gone
in 60 seconds, right withnicholas cage, and I could, I
(12:56):
could kind of see this runningthrough that movie as well.
Um, but obviously thecharacter's going through some
tough times right, like you cancan get that for sure from the
lyrics.
But you're right, I just lovethe whole vibe here and they're
kind of I saw the label PostPunk for them as a band which I
think I had not heard before.
(13:16):
It's just kind of post punk.
I don't know if that's justsort of a way to call it modern
punk or if there is somethingdifferent about post punk, but
you definitely get the punk feelfrom it for sure.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Yeah, you do, you definitely do.
Well, moving into your secondpick and our fourth track, we
have a song called Miss you manby Old Dominion.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Yeah, it's a little new country, and I mean Sam
definitely hates just countryand I know you're not a fan of
new country, correct?
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Country music after 1989 does not exist for me.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
I featured Old Dominion on the show before.
I really like the way MatthewRamsey, their lead singer,
sounds right, like I just I lovehis voice, he's got a real
smoothness to it.
You know, this is borderline,kind of like a lot of new
country, it's kind of borderlinepoppy.
So I'm not going to sit hereand be like, hey, man, this is
that classic country sound Right.
(14:10):
But I think what got me on thisone right is just just
lyrically and thematically thisone, because my best friend
passed away a few years ago andthere's a line in here where he
says he heard a joke that onlyyou would get Right and he kind
of had to laugh and like that's.
And I totally related to thatbecause that's happened to me I
don't know how many times overthe last few years and so I
(14:33):
thought it was great that hekind of captured that within a
song.
That it's not this overly atleast in my mind.
It wasn't overly sappy kind ofabout missing someone.
There weren't a lot of tears inthe song.
It's not like that right, it'sjust I think this very guy
centered emotion right, likeit's a very like this is how
guys will think about each otheror or whatever it is, and it's
(14:57):
just this kind of baseline likehey, I miss you, you know that
sort of thing.
So I thought they did a goodjob of that, to kind of
capturing emotions that I thinkguys have a hard time
articulating a lot of times.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Yeah, I completely agree, and it's funny I was
teasing a little bit before westarted recording that I
wondered how much new country Iwas going to have to slog
through on this new, this newSeptember new music mix.
But I have to say this one Iwill.
The only thing I will disagreeabout is that I felt like it was
a tearjerker.
I found myself weeping to thissong.
(15:32):
It made me cry and it mightstill, as we're talking about it
, because I think that it.
I think it speaks to, certainlyin the song.
This man lost a very closefriend of his and he's singing
about it, but it sounds likethis person died.
But I think it also speaks tolike when friendships just sort
of run their course you know,and for whatever reason,
(15:54):
somebody's not there, eitherliterally or figuratively, like
they've, they've, they're gonefrom your life and sort of that
hole that it leaves and justthat instant instinct that you
have to connect with them onthings.
Like you said, for you the lineabout the joke stood out and
for me the line that stood outwas um, yeah, I miss you, man,
when I hear the band in the baron fifth and main.
(16:14):
Yeah, we tore it up, but Idon't go there much anymore.
It just ain't the same and Ithat, like that really related
to me, like places like whereyou've gone with somebody that's
such a close friend and, justlike you, just it's almost like
that place is dead to you toowhen that person's not there,
because it's just too painful togo back and remember all the
good times.
And I always hope, like, maybeit won't always be like that,
(16:37):
like maybe there'll be a timewhen I'll find comfort in those
old things that we used to do.
But right now it's too soon,it's too fresh.
But I thought that this was,like you said, just a
beautifully written song.
And it was it felt very muchlike two guys, just like ugh.
Even every time he says missyou, man, you feel it, he really
misses this person.
(16:57):
So I felt like it definitelyconnotated the emotion it was
supposed to and it hit me.
It hit me right in the heart,even though Nice, it was old or
it was new country.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
It's new country.
It's new country, all right.
Well, let's move on tosomething that's definitely not
new country.
Your next pick, this is dealer,by Lola Young.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
So Lola Young is having a moment right now, right
Like she's almost like I likenher to like.
She's like the musical versionof the character that Megan
Stalter plays in too much.
I don't know if anybody outthere has watched Too Much, but
that's what this is to me.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
I don't know that reference at all.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Oh my gosh, so Too Much.
Is the new show by Lena Dunhamright?
The girl that created?
Girls Okay, yes, yes, yes, yes,okay, she has a new show that's
kind of like autobiographicalloosely, and Megan Stalter has
just blown up playing thischaracter.
She's great in it, and so LolaYoung is like the musical
embodiment of that.
My girls out there are going tounderstand.
(17:57):
But she had a song called Messy.
That was from her album in 2024called this Wasn't Meant For
you.
Anyway, I think she might havebeen talking to you, matt.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Hey, I fully admit when I'm not the demo, I say
that all the time I I fullyadmit there's a lot of songs out
there, not for me, but I canappreciate it well, and then
this song is coming.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
This is a single um.
It came out in july and it'llappear on her new album, which
is coming on the 19th of thismonth, called I'm only fucking
myself sorry for the languagetoday, but that's the name of
the album um.
And then she has another songcalled one thing.
Not like that anymore.
Those are the other two singlesthat have been released so far,
but I just think that she'sgreat and I think that this song
(18:39):
is so.
It's one of those where we talkabout kind of sad lyrics with
upbeat music yeah like, how sadwould it be if, like you're so
frustrated, you've got to getout of town.
Everything is so crappy and youthink the only people that's
going to miss you or care aboutyou or even notice that you're
gone is your weed guy, is yourdrug dealer, and I love too that
(19:01):
when she's leaving, that's whatshe's packing.
She's going to pack up herself.
She's going to pack up herdrugs and she's going to get out
of town.
I'm like, well, you, you got totake the important stuff.
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Well, not only that's the person who's going to
notice, but also tell my dealerI'll miss him, right, she has
that lie to there where it'slike, yeah, make sure he knows I
miss him too, right, like Iknow he's missing me.
Um, I also thought it was funny.
There was an, there was a linein here.
I was like I'm not coming backfor 15 years and I was like what
is it about 15 years?
I didn't know if there was somesort of backstory or if it was
(19:33):
just kind of an arbitrary.
Almost sounds like, you know,like when kids could try to
think of like a long time, right.
And it's just like they throwout a number and it's like I
don't come back for three monthsand they think that's like a
thousand years, Right.
So I didn't know if it kind ofrepresented that a little bit.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
I think you're a hundred percent right.
That's what I was going to say.
I think she's young and I thinkwhen you're young, you think
like 15 years is a really longtime.
I'm like gee, 15 years went byin a heartbeat, Like I'm still
37 in my head Like what are wetalking about here?
Like so I think it's just she'sa young person and so that felt
like a long time to her.
(20:12):
But yeah, I just think it's agreat.
I think it's a great, I likeher a lot.
I like her vibe, I think herlyrics are funny and playful and
real and that's I really love.
I love this song.
I'm excited for the new album.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
Agreed, agreed, agreed.
I'm going to listen, eventhough, as you said, it's
probably not for me.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Probably not for you, but it's good.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
And that's okay, and that's okay.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Well, we're going to get to the halfway point here
with your next track, and thatis a song called that's Going to
Leave a Mark by Molly.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Tuttle.
Yeah, Molly Tuttle, this iskind of a pop country sort of
sound to it.
I don't know if it's newcountry.
She's from Santa Clara, so it'snot like she's she's based out
of Nashville now, but but shedoes have Northern California
roots.
This, thematically, is just areal straight ahead kind of kind
of a love song.
Like you've heard this athousand times in songs, but
(21:05):
it's like kind of in love withsomeone she shouldn't, she
probably shouldn't love, right,and she can't help herself and
that's why you get back to thischorus of that's going to leave
a mark.
So I thought it was really likekind of cleverly written.
I like her voice.
You know her new album has kindof a bluegrass kind of feel to
it a little bit.
(21:26):
She's kind of got that in herbag like that sort of
bluegrassness.
Again, I'm not sure where thatcomes from, coming out of Santa
Clara, but she's, I think, inNashville now, so maybe it's
just kind of something that'sgrown on her.
But yeah, just kind of a prettygood artist and I just like the
fact that.
You know, I don't know, Jen,while you've given up on country
(21:46):
after 1989, I still try to lookfor the good, you know try to
try to bring some stuff out here.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
I love that about you .
I love that you're still tryingso hard and you know what?
Like, don't get me wrong theart, the new artists that are
coming out that sound like oldcountry.
I'm here, for I love SturgillSimpson, I love Chris Stapleton,
I love Chaparral.
There are some people that arehaving a moment that I can get
behind and I thought that thissong was interesting.
(22:17):
I almost wouldn't evencategorize it as country music,
right, it did feel, it feltreally 90s to me.
It reminded me of that.
Do you remember that old DonnaLewis song that?
Speaker 1 (22:28):
I love, I love you always forever.
Yeah, yeah, just came on the90s channel yesterday when I was
driving around.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Yeah, I feel like this song gave me vibes of like
that.
Yeah, like it's not super deep,but it's really listenable,
it's relatable and she's a greatguitar player.
You can't like, there's no twoways about that.
And, and I think like just tocircle back to the bluegrass
question too, she's really goodfriends with Billy strings.
And so I think that yeah, assoon as I learned that they were
(22:55):
friends, her music made alittle bit more sense to me.
I was like, oh, now I kind ofget what she's going for.
But but I I did.
I liked the song, the same waythat I loved a lot of that sort
of like pop that came out in the90s.
That was just really easy tolisten to not easy listening,
but like easy yeah, yeah, listento for sure, for sure.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Uh, all, right again, sam's not here, but his spirit
never leaves us.
So of course, track sevenpokemon by wet leg another fave,
another fave.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
well, and I love too that we have like your, very
like, clean, lovely, family,friendly artists like packed in
between my like raunchy, I'm all.
Who's the mom here, not meApparently, wow.
But I love Wet Leg.
Their first album was onconstant repeat for me, like
(23:47):
could not get enough.
They dropped the second albumin July actually.
So it's this is not super,super new, but this song is on
the new album that dropped onJuly 11.
But this was not one of thesingles that was released.
So if you've not dug into thatalbum, you probably haven't
heard this song, which is why Iincluded it.
And if you're a fan of wet leg,this is kind of the softer side
(24:09):
of Wet Leg.
They're known for their likehard rocking.
You know anthems, like cleverlyrics.
You know whether it's ChaseLong which launched them, or a
great song that I love calledWet Dream, or a song Catch these
Fists was the lead single thatcame out to launch or announce
this album.
All great songs, CPR also great,but this one is soft, Like this
(24:32):
was kind of the first time Iheard them like delve into love
song territory in this way and Ijust thought it was so great.
I'm hopeful that they don'tlose their edge because, like I
said, I love those hard rockinghits from wet leg.
I think that they're again soclever and so great and I love
(24:54):
that.
These two women really likebuck the system.
They just do whatever they wantand people are here for it
because they're like they.
It's been a minute since theyreleased that first album you
know, for maybe five or sixyears.
And so everybody's just beenlike clamoring to get new music
from them.
Um, and so I've.
I've been really pleased withthisizer album.
If you've not listened to it, Ihighly highly recommend yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
Now, if you're a Pokemon fan, I'm just going to
warn you this does not have aton of Pokemon references in it
right.
Yeah, and I'm only a Pokemon.
My son is into it, so that'show I even know anything about
Pokemon.
But as I was listening to thisI was like this doesn't have as
much to do with pokemon as thetitle might indicate.
But you're right, I think it iskind of a softer feel to it and
I thought it was um interestingand this always kind of works
(25:36):
out this way on these new musicmixes how it's placed right next
to the molly tuttle song,because we know, while that's a
relationship that is probablygoing to go poorly, again, this
one sounds more promising.
This relationship, right butinteresting, coming from these
two artists where you wouldthink molly tuttle sound
probably indicates again thisone sounds more promising.
This relationship, right butinteresting, coming from these
two artists where you wouldthink Molly Tuttle's sound
probably indicates somethingmore promising where Wet Leg,
maybe it might go a littlerougher.
(25:57):
So interesting kind ofjuxtaposition of these two
artists and both of them doingsomething.
Maybe that is a little bit of adeparture, but yeah, I like
this one, me too.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
I like the band, I like the new album.
All right track eight.
Here we are with a song youchose, matt, called madelena by
goose yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
So goose is uh kind of a jam band.
They have performed with deadand company and uh with trey
anastasio from fish, um, andwhat's what I found really
interesting about them.
So I just kind of just I, Ijust came across them for the
first time.
I'm sure they're.
They have some massive fans outthere.
But what's interesting is thaton their studio album they have
(26:39):
tracks that go on for like 12 or13 minutes, which a lot of
times for the jam band.
It's like the track the studiotrack is your standard three or
four minute track and then it'sthe live version.
That's like the track.
The studio track is yourstandard three or four minute
track and then it's the liveversion.
That's like we're going 27minutes on this one, right I
cannot do it with the jam bands,yeah now, I'm normally not a
jam band guy, right like, but Ithought this was interesting
(27:02):
because it was kind of adeparture right like.
This was a really soulfulsounding song.
Um, I'm glad you're on the showthis week because this one kind
of reminded me of John Mayer alittle bit.
Of course, john Mayer is nowleading all things Dead and
Company, so maybe that isn't asodd as maybe I thought.
But I don't know.
(27:22):
I just thought this one as astandalone song, take the jam
band aspect out of it.
I'm like this is a really kindof cool song, you know.
And then when I'm listening toother tracks on this album and
I'm looking down and I'm goingthere's nine minutes left.
I'm like, well, okay, maybe I'mnot going to a live show, but I
do love this song.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
You need to practice your spinning Matt, so you're
ready to get up there in frontToo old.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
yeah, yeah, You're ready to get up there in front
Too old.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Yeah yeah.
I thought that this was aninteresting song and again, like
we're going back, I referenced,you know, Donna Lewis earlier.
This one gave me really 90svibes again and it's interesting
that I would not have guessedthat they were a jam band.
I was not familiar with thisband.
I think I've heard they have asong called Hot Tea that I've
heard it's from an older album,I think from 2022.
(28:16):
And that was really the onlyother song of theirs that I knew
.
And so this one going in again,I got 90s vibes, like it could
be.
Here I am busting out anotherrandom hit from the 90s, but it
reminded me of that Edwin McCainsong.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
I'll Be, I'll Be.
Oh yeah, yeah Sounded a littlebit like that.
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
Like it could have been like a Matchbox 20 song.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
So I was getting a lot of those vibes too, and I
didn't realize that they'd beenaround this long.
They've been around since 2014.
So, I was expecting them to bea much newer band than that.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
But they were new to me yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
All right track.
Nine this is Jealous Type byDoja Cat.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
Yay, Doja Cat's back Again.
Another super mom moment.
I was like, yeah, I'm blastingDoja Cat in the house, that's
good for all teenage girls tohear.
But I just like this song willbe on her new album, Vi, which
releases on September 25th.
And apparently it's not quitedone yet, because she was
(29:13):
supposed to headline ACL Festand it came out just late last
week or early this week thatshe's not going to be there
anymore because she needs tofinish this album.
So I think that almost soundslike she's in trouble.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
You know I'm like well, you're not going to ACL if
you don't finish this album.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
That's right, like you're going to stay in'm.
Like, well, you're not going toacl if you don't finish this
album.
That's right, like you're gonnastay in this studio.
You're not going anywhere.
Ma'am, I'm taking the keys, I'mtaking the phone that's right,
that's right you are in hereuntil vi is finished.
So, yeah, she's uh, she'sworking on it currently, but I
just think that this song is fun.
It's fun, it's cleaner thanmost doja cat songs.
So if, if you want to listen inthe car, you're not in trouble.
(29:53):
But she's just again anotherone.
That's clever.
I like her sound.
I like the way she sings.
I like it when she raps.
Some of her Kiss Me More, Ithink, is a great song.
Paint the Town Red is a greatsong and I feel like Jealous
Type is kind of up in that, likeupper echelon of her hits for
me.
So I'm really excited for therest of this album.
(30:13):
I think that this is a reallygood, a really good Doja Cat
song.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Yeah, this gave me a lot of 80s vibes right.
Totally.
Yeah, like the music, just theenergy, I really enjoyed it.
And the rapping I mean comes inand it's probably like you you
said it's a little cleaner, it'sa tad less aggressive than
maybe you'd normally hear.
So I just think this is like awell-produced song right, like
they did a great job.
(30:39):
Like this is a hit record right.
Like if I could be kind of oldschool music producer guy, it's
like I totally see how this is ahit record right here.
Um, just because of the wayit's put together and so, yeah,
I just really good job, used itearlier.
Like you know, it's not easylistening but it's easy to
listen to and I think this is inthat category.
(31:00):
So, yeah, really, really coolstuff.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
Agreed, and it's also too.
I don't know if this is a guything or not.
It's probably a differentplaylist than a girl, but it's a
fun getting ready song likethat used to be really important
, like when you're getting readyto go out like you had to have
the perfect playlist to like getit together so you could go
score all those free drinks,matt no, 100, I get.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
I get where that's coming from.
You know, talk about like, notin the demo.
It takes me less than 10minutes to get myself ready, so
I don't.
I don't need a playlist forthat, it's really, you just need
one goose song I put on a livealbum from goose or the dead and
I'm out less than one track youdon't even make it through the
(31:46):
first song that's right, that'sright well, we are.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
we are coming to the end of our playlist here, so we
will finish.
We will at least finish thattoday, um, but we are here at
track 10, uh, which is a songcalled home by big X, the plug
and shibuzy.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
Yes, so I think I've brought tracks from both shibuzy
and big X plug on the showbefore.
Uh, big x the plug is a newalbum out, um, and he gets a lot
of help from a lot of differentartists.
I think jelly roll is on here,and and shibuzi, and you know
big s the plug is from dallas.
He just got arrested hererecently, um, and so he is.
(32:25):
He is local guy right local guygetting arrested local guy.
A local man was arrested lastnight.
Um, and his name goes by big x,the plug, um, but yeah.
So this this album, though, hasa much more country sound to it
than I think his other albums.
Um, what I think is reallyfunny is all his tracks are like
(32:46):
two and a half minutes, like hegets in and and gets out right,
like it's real quick.
I don't know what he does inthe live version, if he does
extend it out to 13 minutes ornot, but maybe the complete
opposite of a jam band.
But I think this one stood outfor me just because he's kind of
rapping about either missing aperson or a place right, like
(33:09):
kind of someplace where he'shappiest.
So it's a little more emotionalthan I think you get from a lot
of his other stuff.
And then Shabuzy only adds tothat.
So I don't know.
I thought it was a cool song,and his new album, I think, is
pretty neat too and maybe speaksto more of his Texas roots.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
Yeah, I mean.
One good thing that I'll sayabout this song is that if I
ever need to hear Shaboosie,this gives me a different option
than listening to Tipsy, a barsong, for the 999,000th time.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
All right, I'll take it.
I'll take it, that's good Okay.
Speaker 2 (33:43):
This is a question I have for you and I'm being dead
serious even though it soundslike I'm not.
I'm not sure I understand whowas missing having rap in their
country music.
Who was missing?
That who was like?
No, I mean, I definitely needto throw 17 bars of rap into
(34:03):
this country.
Song.
Speaker 1 (34:05):
I don't look, I'm not advocating for, like country
artists and rappers to gettogether Like this is a big X
the plug album and I feel likeShabuzy is just sort of singing
over.
I hear this as like Shabuzy isjust kind of singing over a rap
track on this Right Like, andjust kind of adding to it the
way a lot of rappers have used,you know, vocalists in the past.
(34:28):
So I kind of see it as that.
But to answer your question, Imean nobody, that's all I needed
.
I'm just kidding.
I don't care for it.
No, I really don't.
I really am quick to turn thatpretty quickly when that happens
, but anyway, it's happeningmore and more.
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
It is, and you know what?
There's clearly an audience forit, right?
Speaker 1 (34:49):
Again, know it is and you know what.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
There's clearly an audience for it.
Right again, talk about notbeing the demo like I am not the
demo right, um, but I thoughtthat just in like terms of again
like a getting ready song orsomething fun to hear like this
song is that it's fun to listento.
Um, it's got a great like it'supbeat, it feels like like
you're getting ready to, youknow, celebrate or have fun, you
know something like that.
So I feel like it's still asong that I enjoyed listening to
(35:11):
.
I just I had lots of questionsas it was going.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
I'm like, who is this for?
Speaker 2 (35:15):
I just want to know who this is for.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
That's fair.
This is not you know what.
In contrast to Jealous Type,this is not a hit record.
Right Like 10 is not going tobe a radio hit or anything like
that.
Or Home is not going to be aradio hit, where I think Jealous
Type really is kind of formedfor that.
But your last pick, this nextpick I mean you talk about a
curveball which I just lovedyour last pick, this is
(35:41):
Clockwork by LaFay.
Speaker 2 (35:44):
Yes, I love this artist and there is like a ton
of internet controversy abouthow you actually pronounce her
name.
I guess the way that it'spronounced in Icelandic those
sounds don't exist in English.
So yeah, yeah, so we're tryingwith like the closest I've heard
is the way you said it Lefe.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
How does the sound not?
Speaker 2 (36:04):
exist.
I know, I don't know, maybethey make like dolphin noises, I
don't know, like clicking, okay, I don't know.
Maybe they make like dolphin ornoises, I don't know, like
clicking, like, okay, I don'tknow, but those sounds don't
exist in english, is what I read, okay, um, so this song is,
you're right, it's a totaldeparture.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
It's like part christmas carol part.
Speaker 2 (36:23):
Princess song from a disney movie yeah um, it's got
it all in there, but you knowwhat it immediately reminded me
of?
Which is so funny, is itreminded me of it's oh so Quiet
by Bjork, the other Icelandicsuperstar.
So I'm like they must lovetheir old musicals or standards.
Speaker 1 (36:45):
Or they're like 100 years behind on music and that's
like new music to them.
Speaker 2 (36:50):
Well, the funny thing is, if you go through the rest
of this album so this is fromthe A Matter of Time album,
which was released on August22nd, and the first two tracks
kind of stay in this lane alittle bit and then it's not.
I mean, she's definitely like achantreuse, she's a singer,
she's a torch singer almost.
(37:10):
So you do get some of it, butnot in like the show-tuney
Disney princess kind of way thatyou do in this track and then a
little bit in the second andthen, even though I think it's
the third track, is actuallycalled Snow White.
It delves into more of like hernormal sound, but I just
thought this was so cool.
It was really unexpected.
I liked it and I think justthis album in general kind of
(37:33):
starts stronger than it finishesto me, and this is the first
track on it.
So I say, give it.
If you're looking for a hardleft, you're looking for
something that's kind ofdifferent and kind of crazy.
I like this one and I like thestory.
You know, I think it's kind offunny that she's singing about
something very real and modernin this very like throwback
style.
That was something thatintrigued me about this song as
(37:55):
well.
Speaker 1 (37:56):
Yeah, that's what stood out to me.
I mean, obviously it sounds acertain way, that's what kind of
gets you right off the bat, butthen lyrically it's, it could
be a very modern song, right,and you could see it framed in a
completely different waysonically and still have it work
.
So I think what made it sointeresting you're right is the
theme, coupled with the way shesings it and the way it's set up
(38:19):
musically and I don't know.
I just thought this was reallycool and she being Icelandic and
Chinese, which has got to be apretty small percentage I mean,
it's 50% of our audience but gotto be rare from a musical
standpoint.
Speaker 2 (38:35):
The studies show that we are huge among the Icelandic
Chinese demographic.
Speaker 1 (38:41):
I don't know what it is, but this sound definitely
exists in their language, okay.
Speaker 2 (38:49):
Oh boy.
Well, to round us out today,before we get ourselves into
trouble, um is your final pick.
Speaker 1 (38:56):
Um, and and one of, maybe, maybe my favorite pick of
yours this week, matt um, asong called sandman by dominic
bike yeah, you know, every,every month we do these new
music mixes and I always know,like there's songs that I'm like
, all right, I'm not gonna misson this one, right and then.
So I could usually get sam onone and and I knew I with this
(39:17):
one, I was like the very least,I think she's gonna like this
song I love dominic uh, yeah,dominic, we've put him on the
show before.
He's.
He's great.
He's got a new album coming, ornew album that did come out,
called rocket.
Um, it's such.
I mean, this is such a greatsong.
It's a great combination of hiphop and rap and even a little
bit of like old school R&B.
And just calling out somelyrics I barely catch a wink.
(39:39):
I guess I'm not the Sandman'stype.
My only wish to be on your list.
So you know, obviously dealingwith some sleep issues here, and
he's just thinking aboutsomeone and he wants to be on
that, you know.
You know, throw back the hollownotes, right, like he wants to
be on their list, right, um, andso I don't know.
Speaker 2 (39:57):
Yacht rock matt?
Speaker 1 (39:58):
no, yacht rock hollow notes is like yacht rock
adjacent right, it is yeah,adjacent, not exactly yacht rock
, so, uh, but no, I don't knowthis.
I I love this song.
There was probably five othersongs I could have picked off
this album to put on this mix,so I just picked this one.
But everyone just go out andlisten to the new album because
it's great, like a lot of hisstuff, so I think everyone's
(40:22):
going to enjoy this one Carrottrack I'm in.
Speaker 2 (40:28):
I love Dominic Fike.
His lyrics are always so catchyand clever and this song is no
different.
It's perfect in that way.
If you like Dominic Fike,you're going to like this song
and, like I said, it got meexcited to go listen to the rest
of the album, all right?
Speaker 1 (40:43):
Well, there you have it A new music mix, this time
for the month of September.
Jen, thank you so much forjoining me this month and
helping me out with the newmusic mix.
Jen's going to be back nextmonth with another new music mix
.
In the meantime, you can joinJen and I on the battle, of
course, as we continue to try tofind the ultimate yacht rock
(41:05):
song, and you can follow us onsocial media Instagram and
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are you listening to, which hasnew episodes this week.
Actually, we have a new episodecoming out this week, so she's
(41:26):
got season seven just kickingoff, which is very exciting.
So Jen and I will work on ournext new music mix for next
month, but in the meantime, forJen, this is Matt.
We'll see you then.
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